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Alfa Romeo 4C convertible likely for 2015

August 12, 2012

The Alfa Romeo 4C on display in Frankfurt last year.

Conventional wisdom holds that if you want to take on Porsche's 911, you need a convertible variant. And although Alfa Romeo's often marched to the beat of a wonderfully idiosyncratic drummer, it sounds as if it's hewing to general sporting-car rules of thumb with the 4C.

According to a report in Britain's Autocar, sources have confirmed that a 4C convertible will follow the launch of the coupe by about a year. Alfa's hoping the carbon-intensive, ultraleggera 4C, with a target weight of less than a ton, will appeal to those who subscribe to Chapmanian values of motoring excellence through reduced mass and, you know, people who just like Italian gadgetry but can't afford a 458.

Though Alfa CEO Harald Wester stated more than a year ago that we'd see production of the mid-engined sportster begin late in 2012, it looks now as if the 4C will hit showrooms in early 2014, with the convertible following a year later.